[78-L] 2 record sets

[David Lennick]

From: burnhamd at rogers.com
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] 2 record sets
> 
> dl wrote
> 
> An odd thing about Victor..they couldn't get around the idea of a classical work 
> that required only two discs being in an album. I don't know if there were 
> exceptions, but every one I've seen through the 20s and 30s has been a pair of 
> single discs..
> 
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> 
> I know you know this stuff, and I'm in Ottawa at the moment so can't check, but 
> I was sure I have the BSO "Bolero" in an album set, also Ormandy's "Les 
> Preludes" which I'm sure is from the 30s.  I also know I have album sets from 
> the 20s, like the Menges "Kreutzer Sonata", with no album number indicated.  
> I'll take a look at the shelves when I get home.
> 
> db
> 

Bolero is M358, which is a pretty late album number for something recorded c. 1929-30. Ormandy's Preludes is M453. So maybe they began numbering 2-record sets in the late 30s.

dl